Chapter 49: White jade is the paste
After the brine was boiled, Xu Shiye directed everyone to put it out of the pot, then brought it to the courtyard and placed it aside to wait for it to cool down. Then he began to grind the water stably, clean it inside and outside, and the soaked soybeans were roughly soaked.
Therefore, Xu Shiye began to direct everyone to remove the soybeans, and then added clean water according to the ratio of weight of 1 to 6, and began to grind the soy milk. During this period, Xu Shiye also arranged two personal soldiers to find some wooden boards to make several single-sided back cover wooden frames that were six feet long, three feet wide and two inches high.
After the soy milk was ground out and started to flow into the large wooden barrel, Xu Shiye had already started to send Xu Cong and others to find the pockets made of coarse gauze, and began to pour the ground soy milk into the coarse gauze pocket, squeezed and filtered the coarse soy milk; then, add clean water to the soy milk in the coarse cloth pocket in a ratio of one to three and squeezed it again and filtered it. After a lot of busyness, I finally made several large wooden barrels of fine soy milk.
Then, the torch in the stove began to reignite the fire, pour the filtered fine soy milk into a large pot, and cook until the bubbles just started, and the soy milk was ready.
After all the fine soy milk was cooked and roughly cooled, Xu Shiye brought the salt brine that had already been cooled, and added it to a large wooden barrel containing fine soy milk at a ratio of about two or three percent, and stirred thoroughly.
After about a moment, the fine soy milk in the large wooden barrel had begun to condense initially. Xu Shiye then asked to bring the already made wooden frame, pour the "semi-finished tofu" product in the large wooden barrel into the wooden frame, spread it flat, covered it with a layer of coarse gauze, and finally pressed on a flat wooden board...
After waiting for a moment, I reopened the coarse gauze on the wooden frame, and plates of tofu that were as clean as white jade and as soft as cream were presented to everyone...
Xu Shiye was really busy with everyone! After nearly half a day, he finally invented the food like tofu hundreds of years in advance!
Maybe it was because Xu Shiye had not tasted the food like tofu for too long, maybe it was because the body he had now had never sniffed the fragrance of tofu, or maybe it was because the food he invented was particularly sweet... In short, Xu Shiye, under the surprised, eager and even admiring eyes of Sun Li, Xu Cong, and several personal soldiers, actually picked it up and tried a large piece in one breath and felt the aftertaste that was unfinished!
"Not bad, not bad! The first time I got this kind of thing, I got it done. It's really good!..." Xu Shiye, who was overjoyed, seemed to say it to Sun Li, Xu Cong and others, and also seemed to be intoxicated and admired.
"Okay, okay! That, the mistress carried these things to the kitchen, and let the chef think about matching several different dishes. Make more! Let the personal soldiers in the house taste it. Then, mistress, you go to the government office and the camp and invite General Liu, Ling Junjun, Xiong Kuohai, and Jun Prefect Jun, Zhang Juncheng and others to come to the palace. Then, I have prepared a novel dish and asked them to come to the palace to drink and taste it together. By the way, Sun Li, stay first, and wait for me to have important things to explain to you..."
In amazement, Xu Shiye gave Xu Cong an interest, and then remembered the main purpose of making the tofu, and then explained Sun Lidao.
"Abide by the order! Does that general, this food that is like the general's words "clean as white jade, soft as cream" have a name?" After all, the young man was too curious, and his close relationship with Xu Shiye, Xu Cong agreed quickly and asked curiously.
"This, bean...ah, just call it 'white jade paste'!" Xu Shiye, who hesitated for a moment, said half of the word 'tofu', and then changed the tone to the tofu with a gorgeous name.
Since then, it has been unaware that it has lasted for decades or hundreds of years. The food of tofu was originally spread under the name "white jade paste"...
"Does Sun Lushuai understand the meaning of this food?" After sending Xu Cong and others away, Xu Shiye signaled Sun Li to enter the back hall with him, and casually sat on a brocade pier and opened his mouth to ask Sun Li who was standing respectfully standing by.
"The general wants Sun Li to take on the responsibility of making this white jade paste and sell it? But he doesn't understand the way of merchants?" Sun Li, who didn't speak much, stood aside with a small fluctuation and asked respectfully.
Xu Shiye nodded and said with a smile: "Sun Lushuai is just one or two right. Please sit down first, and I will listen to you slowly explain it clearly..."
"Thank you for your seat!" Sun Li, who was not good at shirking responsibility, said "Thank you", put only half of his butt on his side, and he was extremely respectful and sat on a brocade pier opposite Xu Shiye.
"Ha, hehe!" Looking at Xu Shiye who was a little funny when Sun Li bent down and whispered, he chuckled and said, "Shishou Sun Lu should not be too restrained! I still want you to explain it in detail. How tired this sitting posture is! Haha!"
Xu Shiye, who casually teased Sun Li's restrained state, saw Sun Li's thin cheeks twitching, and sat upright with a little embarrassed look, then continued: "What do you don't understand? With Sun Lushang's little words and thinking, is it difficult for merchants to be safe? I not only want Sun Lushang to sell it? I still hope that Sun Lushang can accumulate huge amounts of money for me to be a resource for the world!"
Xu Shiye, who paused, gave Sun Li a digestion and understanding time to understand, and then continued:
"It is up to people. I believe that Sun Lushuai will bring me a great surprise. The so-called: rare things are precious. Think about it myself: If you preview some in advance, then bring white jade paste to the dining tables of famous families and wealthy families. White jade paste will not be difficult to become a delicacy that is more expensive than delicacies. When it spreads, you will naturally have a lot of money!
I want Sun Lushuai to bring a lot of gold and silver to the current imperial capital Jiangdu in advance. After Sun Lushuai arrived in Jiangdu, he would first make friends with the powerful and nobles of the Sui Ting and the wealthy nobles on both sides of the river, such as Emperor Yang's favorite minister Yu Wenhua and Pei Ju.
After making friends with you, Sun Lushuai then presented the white jade paste to their meals under the name of selling white jade paste. Then, the name of white jade paste could be spread among the powerful and wealthy families. Even Sun Lushuai could fabricate some market slang such as "If you don't eat a meal of white jade paste, you will be in vain for a walk in the world" and spread it to create momentum.
In this way, Sun Lushu will not worry about the reputation of white jade paste and will not be famous! Perhaps, it is unknown that Sun Lushu will become a wealthy businessman comparable to that of "Tao Zhugong" in the near future? In this way, Sun Lushu will not only gather a steady stream of money, but also can find news about the extremely precious news of the Sui Court upper class by making friends with powerful people.
This matter is a major event that is more important than a thousand responsibilities for me. I still hope to use this to make my Wagang rich and strong the people and the army. I hope that Sun Lu will not let my trust betray me!
Sun Lushuo didn't want to reply to himself in a hurry. After waiting for General Liu and Ling joined the army, Sun Lushuo also came to the table to taste the white jade paste and thought about his trust, and then gave him a reply..."
Because of mentioning Sun Li's military position, let's briefly interpret the military system of the Sui Dynasty:
The Sui Dynasty implemented the system of military troops. Each mansion had one Zhechong Duwei, one Guoyi Duwei, one Chief Shi, and one other general. Each mansion had four to six lieutenants, and two brigades were under the jurisdiction of the brigade. Each brigade had one brigade commander and two teams. Each team had one team, divided into five fires. Each fire had one fire chief and ten soldiers.
Let’s roughly calculate the number of troops: each fire person, each team of fifty people, each brigade of one hundred people, each school captain with two hundred people, and each Zhechong Duwei was about one thousand people.
Chapter completed!